Oct 4, 2023
If you have been following the news, or this blog, you know that things are getting pretty desperate for Rudy Giuliani, (see here, and here, for example) and they just got worse in the past few days. Here is the latest:
Last month, Giuliani's former lawyers in one of his many ongoing cases sued him for nearly $1.4 million for outstanding legal bills. See here.
Last week, the judge overseeing the RICO case in Georgia in which Giuliani is one of 19 defendants, granted a motion to withdraw filed by one of Giuliani's lawyers.
Yesterday, a second lawyer representing Giuliani in that case filed a motion to withdraw. See here. If that motion is granted, the Giuliani will be left without a Georgia based lawyer in the case. The only lawyer left would be a New York-based lawyer. I don't know if there is a requirement that a defendant must have local counsel to "sponsor" the out of state lawyer. If so, it is possible the judge will deny the motion to withdraw. We'll have to wait and see.
It was also reported this week that Hunter Biden has sued Giuliani. See here and here.
But Giuliani is fighting back. He denies that he has a drinking problem. See here and here. And he has filed a defamation lawsuit against President Joe Biden for calling him a “Russian pawn” during a presidential debate nearly three years ago. See here and here. Given everything else, this strikes me as a desperate move, which I predict will be dismissed promptly because the court will find that the statement is political speech, and rhetorical hyperbole or a statement of opinion. The more interesting question is whether the court will also find that the claim is frivolous and impose sanctions, which will, again, make things even worse for Giuliani. Someone should remind him he is already in a big hole, and should stop digging.
UPDATE 10-5-23: MSNBC has a short comment on the most recent news here.
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